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Gastón Roitberg

Gastón Roitberg

As newsrooms trim budgets and staff, La Nación in Argentina has poured resources into expanding its NACION Data team. Since its creation in 2011, LN Data has exposed corruption in Senate spending, unearthed hard-to-access census data and hosted the first DATAFEST in Argentina. NACION Data was nominated in two categories at this year’s Data Journalism Awards and took home a title for its Senate expenses research, which found officials were being reimbursed for trips they never took.